What are the responsibilities and job description for the Testing Psychologist with focus in Autism Evaluations position at Lumiere Children's Therapy Chicago?
Testing Psychologist w/ Focus in Autism Evaluation
Psychological Testing with a Focus on Autism Plus ADHD, LD & Social-Emotional Evaluation
Lumiere Children's Therapy is seeking applications for a Psychologist. The focus of this position is to provide psychological evaluations and diagnosis of autism, with a small amount of ADHD, Learning Disorder, Trauma, and other social-emotional issues to children and adults.
You will provide diagnostic autism evaluations for clients 24-months old through adulthood.
Applicant Required Qualifications:
Psychological Testing with a Focus on Autism Plus ADHD, LD & Social-Emotional Evaluation
Lumiere Children's Therapy is seeking applications for a Psychologist. The focus of this position is to provide psychological evaluations and diagnosis of autism, with a small amount of ADHD, Learning Disorder, Trauma, and other social-emotional issues to children and adults.
You will provide diagnostic autism evaluations for clients 24-months old through adulthood.
Applicant Required Qualifications:
- Completion of an APA-accredited PhD or PsyD degree program in psychology
- Obtained licensure in Illinois
- Experience with and understanding of early child development
- Completed clinical ADOS-2 training and obtained certification to administer ADOS-2
- Recent (within past 6 months) experience providing multiple testing measures including cognitive, or development assessment measures, Such as the WISC-V, WAIS-IV, WJ-IV, Mullen Scales of Early Learning
- Focused study and/or clinical experience with autistic individuals
- Training in the following additional assessment measures: ABAS-3, SRS-2, Mullen Scales of Early Learning, CPT-3, CATA, K-CPT, CVLT-3, Stroop Test, Woodcock Johnson Tests of Achievement
- Identification of symptoms and symptom categories
- Collection of background information
- Considerations for differential diagnoses
- Selecting test measures that are age-appropriate and relevant to the specific inquiry
- Test administration and data collection
- Scoring, interpreting, and analyzing data
- Diagnosis formulation
- Formulating and customizing specific treatment recommendations
- Writing comprehensive psychological reports
- Providing feedback to client and/or family
- Hand-off to treatment providers
- ADHD evaluation (ages 6 through adulthood)
- Specific Learning Disorder evaluation (ages 6 through adulthood)
- Outreach & partnership management of treatment providers in the autism community
- Contribution and organization of autism resource page
- Complete evaluations
- Communicate with clients’ family members and previous/ongoing treatment providers to gain data for evaluations
- Coordinate care with and hand-off to treatment providers for future care (ABA therapists, speech therapists, occupational therapists, play therapists, psychiatrists, mental health therapists, etc.)
- Create, update, and maintain documentation, note-taking, and additional administrative duties as needed
- Please apply for the position
- Please prepare two redacted/HIPPA compliant examples of psychological reports
- Please prepare two letters of recommendation
